Rev On Rockets On Dreamhost - Does it work there?

[Stephen Barncard]

Hello Rev Nation,

I was watching Andre's discussion of Rev On Rockets from the Vegas 
conferences, and got inspired to give it a go. It seemed so simple. 
It works great locally on the Mac.

The hosting for me and my friends is Dreamhost, and I was certain 
that I heard that someone had successfully made it work there. I had 
saved the earliest ROR code that Andre put out a while ago, and which 
I tried to unsuccessfully get to work.

Read the docs, placed the 2.9 x86 Linux standalone engine into the 
cgi-bin folder (after installing the www part of ROR into cgi-bin), 
set the permissions to 755, renamed Standalone to revolution (lower 
case), and brought up a browser looking at a subdomain I created for 
RevHTTP on the web.

I zipped everything and used Terminal to expand  in situ. Also just 
downloaded the newest version of Andre's code. Same thing.

Errors, errors. It's obvious Rev is not being executed. Did anyone 
really get it to work at Dreamhost and what were the incantations? 
Did the aforementioned engine ever work? Will the 3.5 engine work? 
Should I try to go back in history and get a really old engine?  I 
thought Rev had fixed this. Searches on the net of old list posts 
reveal Dan Shafer giving up in desperation and not many success 
stories.

I'm sure it's me or my something about Dreamhost one or the other. 
I'm not sure they could help me unless I have some idea of what to do.

This is one of two major gaps I have with rev. The other is getting 
SQLLite to do anything. (I work with SQL Fat every day....) .. I'm 
off to watch Trevor's VEGAS 08 talk on just that topic.

thanks,

sqb

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stephen barncard
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